Published: Nov. 11, 2009
The 2nd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC), jointly organized by NJU s State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Coordination Chemistry Institute, and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, was held in Nanjing from November 1 to 4.
Participants included nearly 600 experts and students in coordination chemistry from 18 countries and regions.
The conference covered modern advances and new trends in coordination chemistry, including electronic structures and bonding of metal complexes, organometallic chemistry, bioinorganic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and porous materials, rational design of functional materials, nano-sciences of metal complexes, catalysis by metal complexes, surface and solution coordination chemistry and so on.
Prof. Guo Zijian, Dean of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Nanjing University, presided over the opening ceremony of the conference.
Prof. Chen Jun, President of Nanjing University, expressed his congratulations on the opening of the conference and extended warm welcome to all the participants.
Prof. Masahiro Yamashita of Tohoku University, Chairman of the 1st ACCC, and Academician You Xiaozeng, Chairman of this year s conference, also addressed the ceremony.
The 1st ACCC had been successfully held in Okazaki, Japan, in August 2007.